Group L looks unforgiving

I
Serbia
Dominican Republic

J
USA
Lithuania

K
Germany
Australia

L
Canada
Spain


1/4
Serbia vs Lithuania
Germany vs Spain
USA vs Dominican Republic
Canada vs Australia

Pray that Germany shits the bed

Georgia only down by 2 at half time vs Germany.
Montenegro lead USA at half time!! USA can't hit the side of a barn.

Montenegro game is worth a look. USA has been trying to defend Vooch with Hart which is an interesting plan.

Great to see Latvia beat Spain without Porzingis (and for Spain to not get any BS calls go their way at the end). They had a decent contingent of fans in the crowd. Unfortunately whenever they would chant 'Lat-vi-a' all I could hear was 'Hun-gry-Jacks'. It must have damaged my brain over the years.

Hahaha!

Would be great if Brazil could beat Canada tonight, would set up a brilliant last day in Group L where the two winners advance. Same will be the case if Puerto Rico beat Dominican Republic in Group I.

Lots of surprise wins and close games today.

and this one is a surprise pile of shit.

(Australia-Slovenia.)

Shout out to Latvia.

Some surprise results have really thrown a cat amongst the pigeons

Go Latvia.

Puerto Rico beat Dominican Republic, so all of PR, DR, Serbia and Italy are now 3-1 heading into Sunday. A couple of big games coming up.

Spain could be in trouble if Brazil lose tonight, they need to beat Canada to qualify, I think I've got that right.

Canada vs Brazil in a tight tussle with a few minutes to go.

Brazil have got this, so Canada or Spain can't go through

What a win for Brazil, this new head coach has been great for them after a year and a bit at the helm.

Puerto Rico also knocking off DR. Crazy day.

Yep, winner of Canada v Spain and winner of Brazil v Latvia go through. That's 4 knockout games on Sunday, should be fun.

Yago was huge for Brazil, a couple of massive baskets in the final 90 seconds in what was like an old-school Tournament of the Americas grind!

USA, Lithuania, Germany & Slovenia through. Winners of Italy v Puerto Rico & Serbia v Dominican Republic also going through. Hopefully some more upsets left in the tournament.

8 games last night, 5 Upsets . The two great Euro powerhouses of the last decade both in real danger of missing Quarter-finals. France knocked out Rd 1. Spain will now play Canada with both teams vying to remain, after they both got upset last night. Tournament sport is a different beast. You don't get many chances. Aussies not alone in that respect

Where is that cute troll Jacket? Canada drop one to Brazil of all teams lol

Isn't it brilliant that 2 groups are all tied so that the losers of their next games are out of the qf.

Love the drama!

Sth Sudan up 13 on Angola in the 2nd term. If they win that, and NZ beat Egypt, that puts Sth Sudan into the Olympics.

Sth Sudan end up winning by 23, they're in the Olympics regardless of the other result. Amazing effort!

Ivory Coast are ahead of France at half-time, surely the French can't let that one slip? NZ with Ili not playing the second half are keeping Egypt at arm's length but not home yet. Le'afa and Delany threatening 30-pieces.

These classification games have the same watchability as Div.4 social.... BIG drop-off in play.

Philippines annihilate China.

The flopping, head shaking is starting to get to to football levels and the refs are buying it. It's so annoying.

Yeah it is. Italy v Puerto Rico looked poised for a brilliant finish then the Italian blew it open. Latvia 10 ahead of Brazil courtesy of 11/21 from deep.

Well done to latvia without porzingis.

I agree, Dunkman. Slovenia did it well, didn't they?!

The ball movement from Latvia is outstanding, don't believe they can win it but they could cause some major head ache for teams

Slovenia giving Germany a touch up at present, it shows to me that we were bad against the Germans, and got make free throws.

Well that changed quickly, still should have one of those games.

Given Slovenia's antics against us, I’m cheering for Germany. Shame the refs don’t have the cojones to call the techs and USFs like in the Georgia game.

Germany got some excellent bigs, starting with Voightman, big and smart. There coach reacts quickly as well, as Gaze said, they were in a lot trouble and they worked through it.

Wowza,Lithuania giving the USA the business!

Lietuva! Lietuva!

LOL, US players still can't grasp the concept of a 14s shot clock.

Anyone watching these big games today knows that ingles, Kay, Goulding etc could not keep up with the pace in these games. Australia would not make the top 6 in a 12 team Olympics with those blokes.

Italy and Latvia deserve alot of praise...

Lose Gallinari, Lose Banchero to the u.s and then no Mannion or Divencenzo.

Lithuania to hold on? Would be a great win but crossover doesn't mean much.

The more losses inflicted on the US the better.

For the greater good it matters because eventually they'll have to start respecting the World Cup and hopefully one day it gets to a point where they're forced to play their top team.

Who's the top team these days?

Watching this Lithuania team is just awesome. Such good effort and general teamwork.

Amazing shooting, amazing rebounding and post work. Just a fantastic team.

This was a great game of basketball.Lithuania dodged a bit of a bullet but always so satisfying when the US team gets beaten by a bunch of guys that the average hoops fan has never heard of (apart from Valančiūnas). Be interesting to compare the respective collective payrolls of the 2 teams.

Lithuania ♥

Italy, Germany and Latvia/Spain feeling sick right now.

Canada if they advance fade the US despite losing one.

Quarter finals:

Top bracket:

Italy-USA
Germany-Spain or Latvia

Bottom bracket:

Lithuania-Serbia
Canada or Latvia-Slovenia

Latvia hoping for a Spain win who have just gone on a nice run against Canada.

Spain-Canada going down to the wire. Quality game.

Tied 1 min to go.

Good comeback from the Canadians...

And... #1 team gone now. Did pretty well for a team in transition and with lots of players out. Canada move on

Quarter finals:

Top bracket:

Italy-USA
Germany-Latvia

Bottom bracket:

Lithuania-Serbia
Canada-Slovenia

9. Spain 3-2 +60
10. Australia 3-2 +48
11. Brazil 3-2 +19
12. Montenegro 3-2 +7
13. Puerto Rico 3-2 -5
14. Dominicana 3-2 -19
15. Greece 2-3 -27
16. Georgia 2-3 -28

That extra 12 points to get 9th should've been attainable in the Georgia game.

Love all the upsets, and some of those quarterfinal matchups will be crackers.

Don't love how some of the refs struggle to keep control or to enforce the rules around grappling, flopping, mouthing off, headchecks, ... when the pressure is on. The games earlier in the WC seemed better reffed. For the longevity of my TV screen, I hope we get the best refereeing for the quarters which doesn’t reward this nonsense.

They need 2 challenges per team each game - if you lose a challenge you lose one, if you win the challenge you keep it.

I don't care if this slows down what are pretty quick under 2 hour games. The standard of decisions needs to be much better, this will help get better decisions.

What it won’t fix is the ridiculous inconsistency of calling physicality in games.

I always thought NBL was a happy medium between NBA’s ridiculous offensive bias in rules and Europes unnecessary physicality. Use that as a guide.

Shame we didn't get the 4 point and 3 rebound version of Tobey when we played Slovenia.